Glidehouse marries form and function so well that Kaufmanns friends started asking how they could get such a home for themselves. While it may only read as two bedrooms in the specification there is potential for a third with the conversion of the office and this.
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Glidehouse by michelle kaufmann. Glidehouse Sunset Breezehouse Sidebreeze mkSolaire mkLoft mkLotus Sunset Breezehouse Out of all of the designs that MK Designs are responsible for it could be said that Sunset Breezehouse is one of the most extravagant. The companys Balance home which includes two bedrooms and an office. The Glidehouse takes advantage of a ton of green building strategies and is designed to meet ENERGY STAR standards for energy efficiency and performance as well as the American Lung Association.
The first Glidehouse ever built is actually Michelle and her husbands own residence Glidehouse by Michelle Kaufmann Designs Inc Photo courtesy of John Swain Like the robot maid and. Kaufmann and her husband Kevin Cullen designed this small environmentally-friendly house for a half-acre lot of theirs in Marin County CA. The Virginia Society AIA is pleased to announce Michelle Kaufmann as the 2011 Architecture Exchange East Keynote Speaker.
Michelle Kaufmann is the designer of this cool modular homeplan. After nearly 10 months of re-engineering and design finessing Michelle Kaufmanns Glidehouse is getting a second chance at life courtesy of green prefab home manufacturer Blu Homes which acquired the architects high-end residential designs after she shuttered her firm in early 2009. The home is the exhibit on green building called The Smart Home.
Michelle Kaufmann Designs has been one of the stars of the prefab movement since designing the Glidehouse for Sunset Magazine in 2004. That led to her pursuit of modular prefab construction which avoids the waste of one-off on-site construction and makes the home even greener. Michelle Kaufmann photo by Garret Curtis.
Dont think mobile home. Glidehouse is one of the most elegant prefabs around and as well as boasting a stunning exterior the floor plan is very accommodating. GLIDEHOUSE is a trademark owned by michelle kaufmann designs and filed on Monday June 25 2007 in the Non-Metallic Building Material Products category.
Glidehouse has been widely recognized for its green innovation. Michelle Kaufmanns homes boast a number of sustainable building features highlighted in our Green Building 101 series including Structural Insulated Panels SIPs daylighting and natural. Starting at 120 sq.
Kaufmann will be on hand to see her designs unloaded and assembled tomorrow at Sunset magazines headquarters in. The design one of several versions by San Francisco Bay Area architect Michelle Kaufmann is simple and ingenious. It offers an affordable low-maintenance well-designed green housing alternative to traditional stick built construction.
Think Japanesque contemporary ranch house or modern California bungalow. A modern sustainable pre-fab home. To this day I get questions from readers wondering what happened to it after the event.
The company emphasizes the greenness of its homes and has even built a green factory mkConstructs to produce prefab homes. A two-bedroom model costs 161000 in 2004. Prefab specialist Blu Homes now offers designs developed by Michelle Kaufmann including Glidehouse mkLotus and Sunset Breezehouse By Richard Defendorf September 29 2009 From Blu Homes.
To Michelle Kaufmann this means creating solutions for affordable green living. Not only would it be energy efficient and elegantly designed the so called Glidehouse arrives 85 to 90 percent completed on two trucks. Take this walk through the house and get a first-hand exp.
So Kaufmann an architect decided to design her own. In 2004 we worked with Michelle Kaufmann to build the Glidehouse. The house was designed by pioneering architect Michelle Kaufmann.
After nearly 10 months of re-engineering and design finessing Michelle Kaufmanns Glidehouse is getting a second chance at life courtesy of green prefab home manufacturer Blu. The Glidehouse was designed in 2006 by architect Michelle Kaufmann with design features inspired by functional aspects of farm barns Michelle grew up in Iowa. The one-bedroom model contains 672 square feet and will sell for 81000.
A full-size replica of Michelles home the Glidehouse home was built at the National Building Museum as part of the exhibit The Green House and a fully-functioning 3-story Smart home is on display at the Museum of Science and Industry. She decided to build the Glidehousenow a nationally recognized model of beautiful well-designed and cost. The Glidehouse is a prefabricated modernist house designed by architect Michelle Kaufmann that can be built almost anywhere in North America.
As you can see it has a really simple modern style and. The home is focused on ease of use and efficiency of operation. Get yourself to the opening of her new mkSolaire at Chicagos Museum of Science and Industry if you dont believe us And her very own Glidehouse in Novato Ca where she lives with her husband Kevin and her dogs Otis and Peekay is.
Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson. Kaufmann found her calling after she and her husband endlessly househunted in Northern California and came up short with only cookie cutter options. The Glidehouse is high-ceilinged and substantial and affixes to a permanent built-on-site foundation.
Modern Prefab on the Ropes. The house was a hit at that years Celebration Weekend. Her firm Michelle Kaufmann Studio recipient of the 2008 TOP FIRM AWARD by Residential Architect specializes in sustainable design including single family homes eco-luxury resorts and multi-family communities.
Hang on its not your common modular house. Designed by Michelle Kaufmann the Glidehouse is a prefabricated green house ready to go anywhere. It attracted notice and Lloyd Alter of Royal Home a Toronto ON-based manufacturer decided to put the Glidehouse into production.
Inside Kaufmanns homes are bright open beautiful spaces. Ft the price is competitive. A lengthwise storage bar is built into the Glidehouse wall offering practical and unobtrusive storage.
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